Want to know long people in Canada are waiting for subsidized, affordable housing?
It’s difficult to say.
Even though affordable housing topped the agenda at the premiers’ meeting in Winnipeg this week, there’s no clear way to know exactly how long people are waiting for affordable places to live in Canada’s biggest cities.
Toronto posts its average wait online — 14 years for a one-bedroom unit as of 2022. A spokesperson for the city of Montreal said by email that its overall average wait for subsidized housing, as of December 2022, was nearly six years.
“All of them have gone to the point of absurdity, almost,” said Ottawa-based housing policy consultant Carolyn Whitzman.
Others don’t have such
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